These irises started blooming about the time the tree peony blossoms died back. Now they’re both faded and the summer flowers are coming on.
And peas! I have peas! OK, maybe only enough for one meal if you have a tiny appetite, but these make me happy. They’re bigger than this now and I’ve been pulling them off the vine and eating them raw. Next year, I’m planting a ton of them. They taste like spring. So.good.
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If you change a few of the pronouns this is pretty much what happens when I sit down at the computer these days.
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Because I’m supposed to be spinning in preparation for Tour de Fleece in July, I have of course been hit with the knitting bug. I’m working on the Minimalist cardigan (Ravelry link) and have the back, a front and half the second front finished. Because I started this in March, having the body nearly finished is lightening fast knitting for me. There may actually be a whole sweater finished in one year. Can I hear a whoo and a hoo? It’s navy blue moss stitch so I’ll wait to show you progress when front #2 is finished.
Speaking of knitting, (weren’t we?) have you seen this series called Fit to Flatter that Amy Herzog of Stash, Knit and Repeat is doing? I’m on a quest to figure out how to fit sweater patterns to my shape and this series is perfect. I’m only up to Number 3 about assessing whether a pattern will flatter or flop. Very well done.
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My oven is on the fritz. I should have figured it out sooner, but it took a flopped German apple pancake, pecan bars that burned on the edges and didn’t cook in the middle, brownies that didn’t rise (not a complete failure because fudgy brownies are the best but these were a little thinner than I like) and finally chocolate almond bars that completely burned on the bottom before I realized that I haven’t lost all my baking skilz and maybe the oven needs a tuneup.
Nothing pisses me off more than wasting perfectly delicious butter, sugar, chocolate chips and almonds.
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Wandering off to find something to eat. I think I hear chips and almonds calling my name from the pantry. Not cooking these.
Your Siberian iris are/were gorgeous. I like the sweater. Can’t wait to see it. That Pearls Before Swine speaks to me, too;-P And, get that oven fixed stat, but you can cook chips, butter and almonds on top of the stove and make a killer chocolate sauce for that ice cream you need. Just sayin’.
Pretty irises! I just weed whacked some of those this morning. :p
I love the peas! Well done!
You knit? And spin?!
Who are you?!
xo
Love that cartoon! And your peas look great, maybe I’ll grow some next year!
We love those peas too. Maybe we’ll plant some in the garden we haven’t started. And the cartoon reminds me of being home with the kids during the summer … and what it looks like at the end of the day
Sorry to hear about the oven. I don’t mind the waste of ingredients as much as the looks on the faces of my family members waiting to eat what it was that didn’t cook properly!
What a color! Those are my kind of iris.
Own produce is a miracle. It tastes SO good. (Our rabbits got the last batch, so I haven’t tried in a few years.)
And yes, that is fine sweater progress. (She is in my queue.)
And that cartoon just nails it. ADHD fostered by technology. NO question.
I love your irises! So very purple!
We’ve made our way through the snow peas and have decided we need to plant more next time.
Glad to know I am not the only one not getting the things I need to do on the computer.
Yay for the sweater progress. It already sounds lovely. My TdF training has been quite lacking.
I hope you get the oven fixed. Though it has been nearly to hot here to use ours through most of the day, I would be going crazy without it. Hmmmm…maybe it really is not just a redneck-y, trailer-trashy idea to have outdoor appliances ; )
Mmmm…chocolate and almonds.